Is there any paperback worth buying?

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Hi all.

I am familiar with two resources on the web:

  1. NixOS & Flakes Book (somewhat limited)
  2. Saylesss 88 (untitled, possibly unfinished)

These days companies like Amazon sell dozens of Nix books. Invariably these are LLM generated garbage meant to fool the gullible.

Is there any serious paperback out there worth mentioning? Especially one that starts with principles, instead of digging outright into the language.

Thanks.

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That one is only half complete. And there has been no commit to master for about a year. Also, not a paperback.

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No, there is not. Everything worth reading is currently digital-only.

If you’re interested in principles, you may look at https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf.

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